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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry.

Born: November 7, 1867, Warsaw, Poland

Died: July 4, 1934, Passy, France

Discovered: Radium, Polonium

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• René François Armand Prudhomme, also known as Sully Prudhomme.
• He received the first-ever Nobel Prize in Literature in 190.

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The oldest Nobel Prize laureate in physics to date is Arthur Ashkin who was 96 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2018.

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• • The colour of copper sulphate solution is blue.
  • Copper sulphate solution is blue in colour which on heating at moderate temperature for some time